Faith in the Future with Lindsay Bates: Innovative Ministries
The “Faith in the Future” series is all about equipping our church to thrive in the future by hosting conversations with some of the leading experts in being the church in the 21st Century.
This title intentionally has a double meaning. We will be reflecting on what faith will look like in the future, and, at the same time, affirming our faith in the future—that is, in God’s future and the blessings that God has in store for our church and our ministry.
About Lindsay Bates
Pastoral Associate, Lindsay Bates, has spent the past two years researching what Faith communities that look different than the well-loved model of worship on Sunday morning and bible study on Wednesday evening. She has found that most Churches that innovate well do so from a place of loving their communities, finding ways of being the Church that might look different in order to meet their community’s needs. Join us to hear about these congregations and dream about how UDLC might share our love and sense of humor with Ambler in a new way.
A native of Minnesota, Lindsay crossed state lines and earned her BS in Community and Nonprofit Leadership, Entrepreneurship from the University of Wisconsin
Following college, she served as a volunteer with the ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission Program, where she lived, and taught in Cambodia for one year.
She served as the Middle School [Ministry] Director at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Eden Prairie, MN (her home church) for almost two years, before heading to Princeton Theological Seminary to pursue her Master of Divinity degree.
She is now in her final year at Princeton, where for the last two years she has been researching innovative faith communities, working with Professor Kenda Dean, one of the leading teachers and leaders in church innovation, and director of the Zoe Project, in which UDLC participated. Kenda is how Lindsay and I connected and she came to join us here at Upper Dublin.
Lindsay is a candidate for ordained ministry in the ELCA.